Legal disclaimer

SIGMA, GESTIÓN UNIVERSITARIA, AIE, hereafter SIGMA AIE, states its compliancy with the regulations in force about data protection, and especially with the Organic Law 15/1999, dated 13th December, on protection of natural persons and the treatment of personal data and its circulation, as well as the Personal Data Protection Law 34/2002, dated 11th July, on Services of Information and Electronic Commerce Society (LSSI).

According with the current dispositions in force, SIGMA AIE shall collect only the data being strictly necessary to provide the services resulting from its activities and other services and activities conferred by the Law. This privacy policy about data protection may vary in time due to potential legal and legislative and jurisprudential modifications or following the decisions approved by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection and/or the ruling authorities at any moment. For this, SIGMA AIE reserves the right to modify this privacy policy in order to adapt it to new legal and legislative dispositions that were in force specifically during website access, as well as to practices being applied in the sector. In case the previous events shall occur, SIGMA AIE will announce here ahead of time all the changes introduced in this web page before their implementation.

For any question about the processing of personal data, you may contact our Data Protection Delegate at this email address: dpo@sigmaaie.org.

LSSI-CE INFORMATION

In compliance of duty to inform contemplated in Article 10 of the current Law 34/2002, of the 11th of July, on Services of Information and Electronic Commerce Society, we communicate that the responsible for the website, wherefrom various applications can be downloaded, is SIGMA AIE, with mercantile registration in Barcelona. Volume 35309, Sheet 182, B263184, Inscription 1, NIF V61213641, with address in Av. Alcalde Barnils, 64-68, Block B, 3rd Floor Parc Empresarial Sant Joan 08174, Sant Cugat del Vallès – Barcelona, and internet domain www.sigmaaie.org, registered in the corresponding registration, assisting to user communications in the following e-mail address: sigma@sigmaaie.org.

CONCEPT OF USER

The use of the website attributes the condition of User, and implicates the full acceptance without reservations of all dispositions included in this Legal Notice in the version published by SIGMA AIE in the same moment the user enters the domain. Consequently, the User must carefully read the present Notice in every occasion they use the website, since it may undergo modifications.

INFORMATION ON LINKS

SIGMA AIE is not held responsible for third websites that can be accessed through hyperlinks of any kind of content published by a third party.

Any use of a link or access to a third-party website is made voluntarily and at the sole risk of the user. SIGMA AIE doesn’t recommend or guarantee any information obtained through a link not associated with SIGMA AIE, nor hold itself accountable for loss, claim or damage derived from the use or improper use of a link, or of the information obtained therefrom, including other links or domains, interruption of service or access, or of the attempt to use a link, whether when connecting to the domain of SIGMA AIE or when accessing information of third-party websites from SIGMA AIE’s.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE USE OF COOKIES

This website may be using cookies in some pages. The purpose of these cookies is to improve the service we offer to our clients and visitors. Cookies are small data files generated in the User’s computer allowing to obtain the following data:

* Date and time of the last occasion the User visited the web.
* Design of contents chosen by the User in his first visit to the web.
* Security elements involved in controlling the access to restricted areas.

There is complete information about our Cookie Policy in its corresponding page.

RESIGNATION AND LIMITATION OF RESPONSIBILITY

The information and services included or available through our websites may include misstatements or typographical errors.

Periodically, the available information may undergo changes. SIGMA AIE reserves the right to introduce improvements and/or changes in services and contents at any given time.

SIGMA AIE has obtained the information and materials found in the website from trustworthy sources, but even though the necessary precautions have been taken to ensure the information is correct, it doesn’t guarantee that it is exact and up-to-date. Furthermore, the contents of this website have an informative goal in relation to the quality, situation, location, services and rates of SIGMA AIE.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE LIABILITY EXEMPTION ARISING FROM A TECHNICAL FAILURE AND CONTENTS

SIGMA AIE shall accept no responsibility in case of interruptions or a bad performance of the services or contents available on the Internet, regardless of their cause. Additionally, SIGMA AIE shall accept no responsibility for network shutdowns, business damages resulting from said shutdowns, momentary discontinuations of the electric power supply or any other type of indirect damage that can be caused to the Users by reasons alien to SIGMA AIE.

SIGMA AIE does not state nor guarantee that the services or contents could be interrupted or free of errors, that defects shall be amended, or the service or server that makes it available are free of virus or other damaging elements, despite that SIGMA AIE shall make the appropriate efforts to avoid this type of events. In case the User shall take certain decisions or carry out actions based on the information enclosed in any of the websites, the verification of the information received against other sources is recommended.

COMMERCIAL RIGHTS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

All the contents provided by SIGMA AIE, as well as the contents stated in the network through its web pages, constitute an entire work in accordance with the regulations on intellectual property, and are thus protected by the laws and international treaties issued regarding this matter.

It is prohibited any form of reproduction, distribution, public communication, modification, delivery and, in general, any other deed of public exploitation referring both to the web pages and to its contents and information, without the specific and previous approval in written form from SIGMA AIE.

Consequently, all the contents displayed on different websites, especially designs, texts, graphs, logos, icons, buttons, software, commercial names, brands, industrial drawings or any other signs susceptible to industrial and commercial use, are subject to the intellectual and industrial rights belonging to SIGMA AIE or to third parties owning such rights who had duly authorized its inclusion in different websites.

The contents, images, forms, opinions, indexes and any other formal expressions belonging to these web pages, as well as the software required for its operation and visualization, also constitute an entire work in accordance with Royalty regulations, and are therefore protected by the international conventions and the national regulations regarding the applicable Intellectual Property Rights. The failure to comply with the issues stated above implies carrying serious illegal acts and its persecution through civil and penal procedures.

It is prohibited to take part in any act by which the User of the services or contents can exploit or use commercially, directly or indirectly, entirely or partially, any of the formal contents, images, forms, indexes and any other expression included in the web pages without previous permission in written form by SIGMA AIE.

In particular, and without a comprehensive nature, it is prohibited to reproduce, distribute, exhibit, transfer, broadcast, issue in any form, store in hardware or logical supports (for example, computer disks or hard drives), digitalise or make available from data bases different from those belonging to those authorized by SIGMA AIE, as well as to translate, adapt, adjust or modify in any form these opinions, formal images, forms, indexes and any other expression made available to the Users through the services or contents, in accordance with the applicable regulations related to intellectual or industrial Property Rights or image protection.

SIGMA AIE is free to restrict the access to its web pages, products and/or services offered there, as well as the subsequent publication of the opinions, observations, images or comments sent by the Users through e-mail.

In this sense, SIGMA AIE shall be able to install, whenever considered necessary and without damage to the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Users, the necessary filters in order to avoid the spreading of any contents or opinions considered racist, xenophobic, discriminatory, pornographic, defamatory or that in any way could generate violence or the propagation of clearly illicit or injurious contents.

The Users sending SIGMA AIE web pages, suggestions, observations, opinions or comments by means of the electronic mail service – unless they express the opposite in a true and unmistakable manner – and being understood that in those cases which by the nature of the services or contents this could be possible, authorize SIGMA AIE to the reproduction, distribution, exhibition, transmission, broadcasting, emission in any format, storage in hardware or logical support (for example, computer disks or hard drives), digitalization, availability from data bases belonging to SIGMA AIE, translation, adaptation, adjustment or any another modification of such observations, opinions or comments, during all the time the protection issued from copyrights were legally in force. Additionally, it is understood that this authorization is granted for free, and that by the single fact of sending by email such observations, opinions or comments, the Users decline any claim of remuneration from SIGMA AIE.

In accordance with the stipulations stated in the previous paragraph, SIGMA AIE is also authorized to proceed to the modification or alteration of such observations, opinions or comments, in order to adapt them to the requirements of the web pages’ publishing format, without being implied that such alterations could be detrimental to the copyright’s moral faculties held by the Users. The use of any technical, logical or technological resource through which a third party could benefit, directly or indirectly, with or without profit, of all and each one of the contents, formal forms, indexes and any other expression enclosed in the web pages, or carried out by SIGMA AIE for their performance, is prohibited. In particular, it is prohibited any link, hyperlink, framing or similar bond that could be established by others and directed to SIGMA AIE web pages, without the previous specific consent in written form to SIGMA AIE.

Any infringement to the points stated above shall be considered a grievance to the legitimate Intellectual Property rights of SIGMA AIE to the web pages and all of its contents. SIGMA AIE will not accept any responsibility for any consequences derived from the behaviours and performances mentioned before, and will not assume any responsibility for the contents, services, products, etc., belonging to a third party which could be accessed directly or through banners, links, hyperlinks, framing or similar bonds from SIGMA AIE websites.

CONFIDENTIALITY
All data provided by means of electronic mail or forms will be treated in accordance with the regulations in force regarding personal data protection, and in any case, the staff of SIGMA AIE in charge of the management of such information will consider it as confidential.

INFORMATION TO THE USER ON RIGHTS OF ACCESS, RECTIFICATION, SUPPRESSION, LIMITATION OR OPPOSITION, AS WELL AS THE RIGHT TO PORTABILITY OF DATA

The Users may exercise, in relation to the data gathered in the way described in the previous points, the rights recognised in the EU Regulation 2016/679, and particularly the rights of access, rectification, suppression, limitation or opposition, as well as the right to the portability of their data.

The aforementioned rights may be exercised by each User through a request with a photocopy of their ID or Passport, to the following address:ProteccionDatos@sigmaaie.org

However, if a User does not wish to receive information via e-mail or any other mean, they may communicate it, through whatever mean that leaves record of its reception, to SIGMA AIE, in the indicated address.

INFORMATION ON RECORDED DATA, THE SPAN OF ITS RECORD AND ITS PURPOSE

DATA KEPT

Exclusively data aimed to contact the User (on an elemental basis), such as name, surname and e-mail address. This information, once received by SIGMA AIE, shall never be sold, transferred or rented to other companies, with the logical exception of supplying the service.

SIGMA AIE is held responsible for these files containing personal data, created by and for SIGMA AIE with the purpose of carrying out the maintenance and the management of the rapport with the User, the information and distribution of the products belonging to the organization, and the performance of its activities.

PURPOSE OF THE DATA

Additionally, the information contained in the databases may be used to identify the User and in the execution of statistical studies about the registered Users.

During the process of data collection, and whenever data were required, the User shall be informed about the mandatory or voluntary nature of the data collection and, in case this could not be deduced implicitly from the electronic form in question, about the need to implement such data for the access of the User to certain contents provided by websites.

Whenever necessary, SIGMA AIE will ask the consent of the User about using such data in order to send him any information related with the organization, the activities being developed or other related subjects.

AVOIDANCE OF TRANSFERRAL OF DATA TO A THIRD PARTY WITHOUT THE USER’S FORMAL CONSENT

Unless the User has been informed about the likely existence of transfers of their data to a third party, and their consent to it has been obtained, in no case – with the exception of the cases protected by the legislation in force – no third party alien to SIGMA AIE will be able to access, without the express consent of the User, to their personal data.

In all other cases, SIGMA AIE shall cooperate for the third party to comply with the legislation in force, although the responsibility shall be demanded to the aforementioned party.

SIGMA AIE shall not sell, rent or transfer the personal data belonging to the Users of these websites, with the reasonable exception of supplying the service.

SIGMA AIE shall not sell, rent or transfer the e-mails belonging to its Users to other companies, with the reasonable exception of supplying the service.

REMOVAL FROM THE INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION LIST

Occasionally, SIGMA AIE will send an email notifying the improvements, new features or offers taking place in this web page of its property.

Users can unsubscribe at any time by sending an e-mail to sigma@sigmaaie.org (specifying the address of the department involved).

RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USER ABOUT THE USAGE AND CONTENT

Both the access to the websites and the use made of the information and contents included in them will be the sole responsibility of the accessing individual. Therefore, any use of the information, images, contents and/or products reviewed and accessible through the same, will comply with the applicable law, national or international, as well as with the principles of good faith and lawful use by the Users, who will be entirely responsible for the access and proper use. It is compulsory for Users to make a reasonable use of the services or contents, under the principle of good faith and respecting the regulations in force, the moral values, the public order, the moral conventions, the rights of third parties or the same SIGMA AIE, all according to the possibilities and aims for which they were conceived.

SIGMA AIE does not assume any responsibility, direct or indirect, arising from potential or emergent damage or dismissed profit, or derived from the improper use of the services or contents made by the Users or third parties.